Budget rate is fixed commercial rate - Budget rate is set to be the commercial rate. This overrules the commercial rate set in Project - Authorisation (rate).

Charge - to set the charging method of the bookings. There are 3 options:

Not chargeable - Booked activity time or expenses are ignored when invoicing the project

Fixed price - Regardless of the amount of booked time or expenses a fixed price is invoiced

Costing - The actual booked time, rate and expenses determine the amount that is invoice

Status - Showing the invoice status. Only applicable when charging a fixed price.

Tab (Resources/) Authorisation

Here you can add resources to a project which you can authorize per resource-activity and set a commercial and cost rate. Only authorised users can book time on the specific project activity. The commercial and cost rate are the rates used in planned, actual hours and invoicing, except when the option 'Budget rate is fixed commercial rate' is set. Than the budget rate is used. In invoicing you can change the amount if you want.

When adding a resource to a project in tab Authorisation. The rates of a resource are default set, with the out of masters resources or masters positions. But only if (one of) these rates in these masters are set.